Automobile attachment.



E. R. MILLER.

AUTOMOBILE ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED Nov 3. 1916.

Patented July 10, 1917.

INVENI'OH WITNESS ATTORNEY WWW EMIL R. MILLER. OF WILLdVV LAKE, SOUTH DAKOTA.

AUTOMOBILE ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent;

tented July 10, 1917.

Application filed November 3,1916. Serial No. 129,365.

eilizen of lhe l'nited States, residingat Willow Lake in the count of (lark and State of South Dakota, have inventedeertain new and useful Improvements in Automobile Attarhnu-nts, of which the following is a s 1e ifiratiou.

This invention relates in automobile at hu-lnneuls. and more parlieldarl to an attarhinent for preventing looseuess or play of the steering gear of an automobile,

()ne of the main objerts of the invention is to provide adevire ol the eharaeter stated \vhieh ran be quickly and easily applied to an automobile of standard construction. further object is to provide a device which can be adjusted so as to vary the resistance ofl'ered to free movement of the steering gear to suit rireuinstanees. Further objects Willappear i'rom the detailed deseripiion.

1n the drawings l igure l is a top plan view of the device as applied;- I

Fig. 1 is'a section on line 2-- of Fig. .1.

Fig. 3 is a. seetion on line 3 3 oi Fig. 1 and Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the device in disassembled condition.

The disk 1 of steel or other suitable mate: rial is provided with the alined laterallyextending arms 2 adapted to lit on the upper face 01', the front axle 3 ol an automobile, at the (enter thereof. suitable Ua-lip lis passed aboutlhe axle 5 and has tll'llIH passedthrough plate I) positioned abdve arm 2 of disk 1. A not (i is threaded on earl-1 arm of the elip -l and acts to toree thebar '5 into.

tight't'riet-ional engagement with arm Zthus seeurinp the disk 1 to the axle 3. Disk 1. is further provided with'a renter aperture 7. A suitable washer S of asbestos, leather. or other suitable material is mounted on the upper fare of disk 1 and is provided with a wentral aperture 8 in alinelnent with the.

and disk J. This spring acts to force the disk 9 toward the disk 1 into tight frictional engagement with the washer 8. By this means a braking effect is exerted on disk 9 so as to retard every rotation of the same about the pivot bolt 12. By threading the nuts 13 on to the bolt 12, the compression Oil the spring 14 may be varied so as to increase or diminish the pressure on disk 9, as de sired, thus rendering it possible to the resistance to rotation of the disk oi rcmnstances. v

A split sleeve 15 is secured. on the transversely extending steering rod 10 at the longitudinal center thereof. This sleeve is provided with an integral upwardl extending tapered stud 17 the upper end of which fits into the aperture 1.1 of arm 10 ot disk 9. The upper end of stud 1T ret'essed and interim-1y threaded to reeeive a cap serew It which. arts to prevent um arm 10 of disk 2) from beeoming disengaged from the stud. The steering rod 16 is pivot'ally secured at eaeh end tofthe inner end of the arm 15) of a steering spindle 20 which is pivoted in the usual York '31 at the eiid of axle 3. By this 1neaus..wheu the steering rod 1G is shifted in either dirertion the disk 9, due. to its frietioual engagement with. the fixed disk 1, will prevent looseuess or pla of rod 16 thus he to sttit suring smoothness and accuracy of operation of the steering gear. By :uljustilur the jam nuts 13 on the pivotbolt '12 the. amount of resistauee to the rotation of disk d may lie varied to suit vireumstalures, thus providing simple and ellicient means whereby the control of the steering gear-may be varied to suit ronditions. I i

There ma be slight changes madein the eonstruetion and arrangement of the differ .ent. parts of my invention without departingfrom the held and scope of the same, and.

.I intend to include all such variations. as fall within the scope of the appended elaim. in this appli tion in whit-h the preferred form only of my invention is disclosed.

\Vhat I claim is: The combination with an axle provided at each end with a. fork, spindles mounted in said forks and having rearwardlyextending steering arms, and a continuous steering rod pivotally secured at each end to said a rule; of a lower disk provided with integral lat erally exte uilingrar ns adapted to fit on the upper face of said axle, said arms being, in the plane of the disk. U-clins secured about.

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the axle and the arms of said disk, an upper disk rotatably mounted on the lower disk, :1 wearing member interposed between said disks, the said upper disk being provided with an integral rearwardly extending arm,

pivotal connections between said arm of the upper disk and'said steering rod intermediate the ends thereof, and means for forcing said disks toward each other into tight frietional engagement with said wearing inem- 10 her.

In testimony whereof I afll x my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EMIL R. MILLER. Witnesses:

Bnnr A. MILLER, G. C. BERRY.v 

